In this, and other ways, the news can be not just a waste of time, but actually harmful. I have relatives who will tell you that half the scientists believe in evolution but half of them don't, same with global warming, because that's what bullshit fake-objectivity requires journalists to present.

This right here is what drives me up a wall. Why the fuck do I care what some crackpot or some religiot has to say about what scientists are doing?

More than anything else that's wrong with news today, this is the thing that makes me want to throw something through a window. Preferably, the reporter.

I am on facebook and twitter.I have dropped/blocked all my idiot relatives, they weren't worth the migraines.

--------------"It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall

That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad